The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

While reporting the victory to the capital, Zhao Qi sent scouts to find the whereabouts of the Jin army. At the same time, he sent troops to attack Wenshui, Yuci, Taigu and other prefectures and counties occupied by the Jin army. After three days, he recovered them all and killed three Jin army guards.

, wiped out the Yisheng Army who rebeled from Song Dynasty, sent again to the troops to garrison

At this moment, Zong Han also had news. This boy set up a suspicion formation and deceived the Song army guarding the city. Then he quietly led his army to leave and first robbed Yuci, then conquered Shouyang and plundered, and bypassed Taiyuan City.

Enter Xinzhou, station troops in Chitang Pass and Shiling Pass

"This kid is really cruel!" Zhao Qiong said hatefully after listening to the report. Chitang Pass and Shiling Pass are the gateways to the north of Taiyuan. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. As long as they occupy these two places,

It is equivalent to mastering the key to the gate of Taiyuan Prefecture, and you can go south at any time. Only by occupying these two passes can Taiyuan be considered a complete rescue. So after five days of quitting, Zhao Jie left 20,000 troops to guard Taiyuan on the tenth day of July.

In the city, he led 100,000 troops to the north to seize the two passes, recover Xinzhou and Daizhou, and completely expelled the Jin army from Hedong...

Besides, Zong Han withdrew from Taiyuan City and gave up the results in half a year. The duck that reached his mouth flew away again, which made him angry and helpless. Although Sanjiao only fought one battle, this battle caused nearly 10,000 injuries to Zong Han.

, enough to make him hurt. Although he could not determine whether he had met a group of people in Yingzhou, he had already determined that there must be a connection between them. In the end, there were no less than two people who died at their hands.

Thousand

The huge losses made Zong Han realize that he was definitely not a rival to the Hezhong Army in the field. Even the Sanjiaokou, the stronghold that controls the valley entrance, is far inferior to Chitang Pass and Shiling Pass, and not to mention that it is comparable to Yanmen Pass.

Although a military brigade stationed at Sanjiaokou could block the convoy that relied on the official road, it could not block the Hezhong Army who was determined to save Taiyuan.

If the decisive battle is under Taiyuan City, although I am backed by the city, I am not worried about the back, but I can only be on the defensive position and lose my motivation. If the Sanjiaokou loses again, my path to return to the north will be intercepted and I want to leave

I can't leave either. Even if they don't beat themselves, they will have to end up with the people in the city.

If Taiyuan is abandoned and the Song army continues to fight field battles outside Taiyuan, it will still be too shallow to have the depth of the battle, and the Song army can still adopt the tactics of step by step.

It is the ending of being squeezed into a corner and being annihilated

Just as Zong Han was thinking about it and weighing the pros and cons, another news came. The reinforcements from the Song army had already reached Jingxing and were preparing to retake the road in the Zhongshi Division, the route of returning north like Shouyang was completely blocked.

If you want to go back, you can only break through the 300,000 army of encirclement and block Zong Han's arrogant arrogance, but it is not crazy enough to overestimate your ability. You will make a quick decision to withdraw from Taiyuan overnight and retreat to Shiling Pass to guard it. If you deal with the Song army, you will not be able to do so.

Miaoke immediately withdrew from the Song Dynasty, so that he always took the initiative.

Although it was Zong Han's own choice to withdraw from Taiyuan, he was a coward! He tried his best to persuade the emperor to go south to attack Song, but Han could not take the lead in the city of Bianjing, but he heard that he met the gangsters.

Ten million taels of silver returned to the other party. This matter sounded outrageous, but Zonghan was still happy. He laughed at him for a long time and did not expect that the cycle of nature would be cycled. Today it was his turn, and at the last minute, he failed!

"God of the Valley, are we just retreating here like this?" Wanyan Loushi picked up the bowl and drank a big sip of wine and said,

"Although I'm not willing to accept it, it's the best thing to do now. After controlling Shiling Pass, we can go south at any time. The Song army will not stay here for a long time!" Wanyan Xiyin replied with a smile.

"Well, the words of the God of Ceres are reasonable, the Song army will not last long!" Zong Han nodded and said

"Marson, we control Shiling Pass. The Song people will not be ignorant of the importance of this Pass. Even if they are unable to retake it, they will inevitably leave heavy troops to defend themselves. How could they withdraw their troops easily!" Wanyan Loushi asked in confusion.

"Hmph, how can we go back empty-handed after paying such a great price? If they don't leave, they can only be buried with Taiyuan City!" Zong Han snorted coldly and said.

"This..." The two of them were covered with clouds and mist. Wanyan Loushi looked at them but they still didn't fully understand what they meant

"Loushi, the Song army is not as good as us in combat. We only need to carry a small amount of food and grass to go out to fight. On the way, the army needs to be recruited on the spot and fight continuously, but the Song army cannot do this!" Wanyan Xiyin explained

"Oh, I understand. We just need to cut off the Song army's rations, and they will collapse without attacking!" Wanyan Loushi said suddenly.

"Yes, their firearms are sharp, but they can't stop eating or drinking!" Zong Han nodded and suddenly felt a little better in his heart...

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In ancient times, military supplies were mainly food and grass. Han army had to prepare military rations for special transportation when going on expedition. This was closely related to ethnic eating habits. Han army soldiers had to eat steamed buns, vegetables and meat, and drink porridge. They could not always make do with each other, otherwise the morale would be

The combat effectiveness will be affected. Therefore, every time a war occurs, a large amount of military rations, supplies and food are collected, which sometimes takes several years. A large number of civilians must be summoned to transport them along, resulting in a shortage of labor and abandoned fields.

Once the war begins, if the battlefield is too far away and the transportation line is long, transportation will be more difficult. The huge logistics are also susceptible to attack, which leads to the astonishing cost of war, so it also makes conservative officials and most people oppose the war.

This is also a mass base

The logistics of the nomadic army is very simple. First of all, they eat briefly. The soldiers who participated in the war can carry their own food and jerky meat can last for ten or eight days. Another important thing is that the nomadic army is good at plundering the Chinese during the battle.

The nation maintains consumption, relies on robbing opponents' military rations and digging the Han people's grain storage method to solve the logistics supply for long-distance raids. There is no need to consider the problem of large groups of people providing logistics food and grass. The army of the nomadic people uses war to support the war, so the cost of war is very low.

This is not the most troublesome. The bigger problem is that the nomadic peoples have flexible and activate cavalry units that can maneuver quickly, which is conducive to finding weak links to specifically attack the baggage team of the Central Plains army. The Central Plains army is on an expedition, with a long transportation line and is particularly vulnerable to attacks.

The front-line troops drove the carts and drove donkeys behind them, and once they were attacked, they were given a portion of food and grass, they were completely free, and the food problem became a burden.

However, the Song Dynasty's military generals could not solve this fatal problem. Whether it was Taizong's Northern Expedition, Yuanfeng's Expedition, Xining's Expedition to the Border, Jin and Liao, logistics were all their drags on them, and they repeatedly fell, but it was

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Emperor Taizong of Liao Yelu Deguang led tens of thousands of troops, and general Du Chongwei led 200,000 troops to fight. As a result, the Liao army cut off its food and grass, cut off its retreat, and won a great victory. During the Yuanfeng attack, the Western Xia army played the role of cavalry and continued to attack.

The transportation line of the Song army, and the baggage was passed west of Jingyu Pass in Lanzhou, was suddenly attacked by the enemy. The food protection army was defeated. Ding Fu trampled on himself and died thousands of people. The food and grass and plowing ox were instead captured by the enemy.

After the dynasty launched a northern expedition, the military reserves accumulated since Xining and Yuanfeng were exhausted, and the Zuozang Deposit and the treasury in various places were empty, resulting in difficulties in supplying military rations. Guo Yaoshi, the Yanshan Prefecture, had more than 100,000 troops, and the team

It is growing, and requires more than 100,000 hu of grain per month, all transported from Hedong and Hebei. The roads are difficult to move due to civil unrest. Often, the officers and soldiers plunder wealthy families, block the road and rob them, and squeeze out other troops' food, grass and money. It can be said that Yanjing is lost.

It's also related to food and grass

Therefore, no matter whether Liao, Xia, and Jin, who had fought with the Song army, they all believed that the logistics and logistics transportation line was his weakness, and each hit was accurate...

A transport team consisting of hundreds of four-wheeled trucks and three to four hundred pack horses. After a brief rest, Loufan stepped onto the official road to Taiyuan. They belonged to the transportation team of the Loyal and Yong Army's baggage brigade and were responsible for Youlan.

After the transportation mission from the state to Taiyuan was on the road, several caravans also leaned over and followed them.

After Taiyuan rescued the siege, everything was short of the city, especially the food, so it was impossible to collect it on the spot. I don’t know how many times the Jurchens plundered them, and where could I take out the surplus grain to support Taiyuan and follow the entry of the Hezhong Army.

There are more than 100,000 people waiting to eat, and the food needed needs to be transported from the river to Taiyuan. The heavy transportation task fell on the Yi Yong and the baggage brigade.

The enemy situation on the ground in Hedong is very complicated now. Not only the Jin army, bandits, but also the defected Yisheng army and the imperial guards who fled to Taiyuan. They are all targets of the Hezhong army to clear out these people due to the gap in military strength or weapons.

He did not dare to confront the Hezhong Army head-on, so the transport team, which had few combatants and slow movements, became the target of their attack!

The supply line of the Hezhong Army is in the area of ​​activity of the Jurchens and defeated bandits. Once the transportation teams on the transportation line are extended, they are very vulnerable to attack. Therefore, the Hezhong Army has taken some measures, such as minimizing the number of supply bases and shortening them.

The distance is to concentrate troops. Recently, the smaller transport teams have often become targets of attack by the Jin army and large bandits, and have lost a lot of materials and personnel. In view of this, the Hezhong Army acted as many transport troops as possible and strengthened the

Alert force

This time, the transportation team led by Lou Qian dispatched a total of 200 large trucks and 400 pack horses. In addition to weapons and ammunition, there were 2,000 stones of food and 100,000 jin of military pay, and used 500 troops and 300 jin of troops in the baggage brigade.

A commanding archers are responsible for transportation and alerting. Although they are just the supplies of the loyal and brave army, they are not soft persimmons!

The soldiers of the baggage brigade can not only complete their jobs, but also receive strict military training, learn basic tactics of the infantry, attack on the flank side, roundabout encirclement, night battles, search and alert, marching organization and other aspects, and have weak combat effectiveness.

It is relative to the combat troops of the Loyal and Brave Army... (To be continued...)